Did I say play catch with you? I meant to say, play catch with you and someone else at the same time.

In case you missed those specs, the robot is able to position itself within two centimeters of where it needs to be in a time window of only five milliseconds, which yields an impressive catch rate of better than 80 percent. That's maybe not major league, but it could probably be little league, and undoubtedly there's still some optimizing to do. You know that robot buddy you wish you had when you were a kid, that would always be up for a game of catch? This could be it; they just need to teach it how to throw the ball back first.